“If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.” IfsBelieveTodayPoliticalLeaderTomorrowPromiseSuicideBelieve In MeMurdererPolitical Leaders Author:Katherine Anne Porter
“We need to do what I call visionary organizing. Recognize that in every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future.” PeopleNeedsLooksSchoolLeaderSolutionsCrisisAngrySuicideFishesCommitVisionariesOrganizerSchools Of Fish Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over.” PeopleLongCountryFactsShowsRealityWantedUsedLyingSufferingLinesPoorLeaderRecordsSawsMissingTomorrowPoliticianAchievementSuicideBoundsCorruptionGoodsPollutionPoor PeopleBoastAdaptedShamelessGreat AchievementLong LinesSleazy Author:Antonin Kratochvil
“I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.” FeelsHas BeensHandsChurchAttitudeLeaderBloodGaySuicideCommittedDestroyedChurch Leaders Author:Andrew Solomon
“In every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future.” PeopleLooksSchoolLeaderSolutionsCrisisAngrySuicideFishesCommitVisionariesOrganizerSchools Of Fish Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.” IfsKnowsWantDreamAmericaLeaderEffectsPolicySuicideCurrentsCommittedCeaseObjectivesPaceDeclineAmerican DreamShrinksShrinking Book:America: Imagine a World without Her Source: America: Imagine a World without Her
“Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.” PeopleTodayPastFormPoliticalBlackEffortLeaderMoralExerciseSuicidePrivilegeIndifferenceVotingApathyPollsBlack HistoryApatheticMoral Failure Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury